This week, I’ve been playing around with ideas of modernity. This is partly inspired by Arjun Appadurai, who’s seminal text Modernity at Large I’ve been studying for my PhD. In it, Appadurai argues that modernity is not a simple transition but an in-flux set of scapes that influence modernity. For example, rather than a country […]
If you haven’t heard of context switching, it’s the concept that moving between tasks diminishes overall output. For example, if you’re trying to write something (an essay, report, etc.) and then check emails, you’ve context-switched: you have moved from the context of writing something to the context of scrolling through emails. This shift results in […]
For some reason, I’ve been on a real Star Wars kick lately. It’s been 20 years since Revenge of the Sith ended the prequel trilogy, and like symmetry, it’s been 10 years since The Force Awakens kicked off the sequel trilogy. Interestingly, neither trilogy captured the magic of the originals and yet both trilogies still […]